Practice makes perfect Posted: 23 Apr 2010 05:07 PM PDT Members of the Rudder Rangerette dance and drill team rehearse Friday for the first Rangerette Review in the school's history. The event will be held at the Rudder High School Auditorium at 6 p.m Saturday. Tickets are $8 at the door. ... |
CS may get another hospital Posted: 23 Apr 2010 05:09 PM PDT Officials with Scott & White Healthcare confirmed on Friday that they are considering building a hospital in College Station, but nothing is official.Rhona Williams London, the director of media and public relations for Scott & White, said th ... |
iPhone app to aid in rescues Posted: 23 Apr 2010 05:09 PM PDT Water rescue technicians have never had a tool quite like this. A new iPhone application, developed by the Texas Engineering Extension Service's Urban Search and Rescue Division can, in two steps, accomplish what it took first responders hours to cal ... |
Kids 'Hug our Troops' Posted: 23 Apr 2010 05:09 PM PDT An area woman was moved when students from an out-of-town school recently sent care packages to her son, Lance Cpl. Gabriel Martell, and other Marines stationed in Afghanistan. Students from Huntsville Elementary Intermediate spent a week collecting ... |
Three roommates charged with felony marijuana possession Posted: 23 Apr 2010 04:20 AM PDT Eagle Staff ReportThree roommates face felony marijuana charges after police said they searched their Bryan home during a drug investigation.Justin Robert Blanco, 18, Vanessa Rhiann Delacruz, 20, and John Joey Hernandez, 18, were arrested Thursday on ... |
Derby to raise money for Scotty's House Posted: 23 Apr 2010 05:09 PM PDT Eagle Staff ReportA Texas A&M student group will hold a soapbox derby on Saturday to raise money for Scotty's House and a Costa Rican community.The Aggie 500 will be from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the John B. Connally Building on Tarrow Drive in Colle ... |
Police: Loud music leads to pot arrests Posted: 23 Apr 2010 04:19 AM PDT Eagle Staff ReportBryan police said they arrested two men after they pulled over a vehicle for playing loud music and noticed the passenger appeared to have eaten marijuana.Tyree Jamar Love, 17, and Bryson Deonte Robertson, 18, both of Bryan, were ar ... |
Rescuers to train this weekend Posted: 23 Apr 2010 05:07 PM PDT Eagle Staff ReportTexas Task Force 1, the state's elite search and rescue team, will participate in a large-scale training exercise this weekend at Disaster City on the TEEX training complex in College Station.The 80-member team will be joined by mor ... |
Competitive science Posted: 23 Apr 2010 05:09 PM PDT Kale Plumlee, 17, and Tamara Phillips, 16, teammates from Comanche High School, assemble a balsa wood helicopter for competition at the Texas Science Olympiad at the Student Recreation Center on the Texas A&M campus Friday. Nearly 1,000 junior hi ... |
Something for everyone Posted: 23 Apr 2010 05:07 PM PDT Jim Pepper of Blanco places price tags on items at his booth at the IEM Peddler Show at the Brazos County Expo Friday. The show features almost 70 vendors from around the region selling clothing, home decor, crafts and more. The College Station Sprin ... |
Woman charged with capital murder in baby's death Posted: 23 Apr 2010 04:05 AM PDT HOUSTON -- A Houston woman who initially told investigators that her 2-month-old son had been abducted but later led authorities to his body in a wooded area has been charged with capital murder in the child's death.Narjes Modarresi, charged Thursday ... |
Home sales show signs of rebound Posted: 23 Apr 2010 05:07 PM PDT WASHINGTON -- Sales of new homes took the biggest monthly jump in 47 years in March, while orders for most large manufactured products rose by the largest amount since the recession started.The two reports were a sign that the recovery is picking up ... |
Hundreds attend vigil for unidentifed boy found dead in Wylie Posted: 23 Apr 2010 04:06 AM PDT WYLIE, Texas -- Hundreds of people gathered to attend a vigil for an unidentified boy found dead earlier this month near a North Texas lake.Authorities have been working to identify the boy believed to be about 6. His body was found April 15 in a par ... |
Panel to review execution case Posted: 23 Apr 2010 05:07 PM PDT IRVING -- A state forensics panel on Friday assigned four of its members to review the arson case that resulted in the execution of Cameron Todd Willingham, who was convicted of killing his three children.In a report prepared last year for the Texas ... |
Drilling accidents prompt new rules Posted: 23 Apr 2010 05:07 PM PDT NEW ORLEANS -- Federal regulators did not need this week's explosion aboard a state-of-the-art rig to know the offshore drilling industry needed new safety rules: Dozens of deaths and hundreds of injuries over the last several years had already conv ... |
Ex-youth jail official gets 10 years Posted: 23 Apr 2010 05:07 PM PDT ODESSA -- A former Texas youth jail administrator was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison for the sexual abuse of a teenage inmate in a case that ignited a statewide scandal over the treatment of young offenders.An Odessa jury of seven men and fiv ... |
Atheists group forms attack against prayer day Posted: 23 Apr 2010 05:07 PM PDT MADISON, Wis. -- To pray or not to pray?That's the issue government leaders across the country are facing after a federal judge ruled that the National Day of Prayer set for May 6 was unconstitutional.The ruling can't take effect until all appeals ar ... |
Killer set to die by firing squad Posted: 23 Apr 2010 05:05 PM PDT SALT LAKE CITY -- Utah is set to execute a convicted killer by firing squad in June after a judge agreed Friday to the inmate's request for the method, renewing a debate over what critics see as an antiquated, Old West-style of justice.Ronnie Lee Gar ... |
Belgian bishop resigns, says he sexually abused child Posted: 23 Apr 2010 05:07 PM PDT BRUSSELS -- Belgium's longest serving bishop resigned Friday, expressing sorrow for having sexually abused a young boy both as a priest and after becoming a bishop in 1984.The resignation of Roger Vangheluwe, 73, the Bishop of Bruges, was the first f ... |
Verizon posts lowest number in decade Posted: 23 Apr 2010 05:07 PM PDT NEW YORK -- Verizon Communications Inc., the largest wireless carrier in the country, is finding there's an end to the number of people who will sign two-year contracts for cell phone service.Verizon said Thursday that it gained a net of just 423,000 ... |
Grant fans fight push to put Reagan on $50 bill Posted: 23 Apr 2010 05:07 PM PDT CINCINNATI -- Bugler, sound the charge! Folks in southern Ohio are mounting a counterattack against a congressional proposal to replace native son Ulysses S. Grant with Ronald Reagan on the $50 bill.Politicians have passed resolutions, businesses hav ... |
Facebook's new tool tailors Web Posted: 23 Apr 2010 05:07 PM PDT NEW YORK -- Facebook is spreading its wings to the broader Web with new tools that will allow users to see personalized versions of websites they visit elsewhere.The move could change the way people experience the online world, though it could come w ... |
3-D video gaming needs marketing Posted: 23 Apr 2010 05:07 PM PDT UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. -- For movie goers, watching a 3-D film is a relatively easy experience. Audiences don't need to do anything other than pay a few extra bucks and slip on a pair of special glasses to see 3-D versions of Avatar or Alice in Wonde ... |
Our actions should reflect that salvation is for everyone Posted: 23 Apr 2010 05:09 PM PDT "When men on the chessboard get up and tell you where to go, and you've just had some kind of mushroom, and your mind is moving slow, Go ask Alice; I think she'll know." -- Jefferson Airplane, 1967A hookah smoking caterpillar called me asking whether ... |
Faith calendar Posted: 23 Apr 2010 05:09 PM PDT Sunday* First Christian Church, 900 S. Ennis St. in Bryan, will celebrate Earth Stewardship Sunday at the 10:40 a.m. worship service. The Rev. Jesse Myers will preach on "Misplaced Emphasis," based on Genesis 2:15 and Colossians 1:15-23, a reminder t ... |
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